Apologies that you haven't heard from us for a while. Our project for June is that we we'd stand ready to do various things supporting the Woods trial if it went the full distance & some anti-harassment work.

Per ARSCCUK decision that"sauce for the wog is sauce for the clamhead", leafleting around the neighbourhoods where critics live will be met (for a start) with massive leafleting around the neighbourhoods where clams trade; yesterday we opened up our second crate of leaflets and started on London bOrg.

We were meant to field two pairs, but one guy was missing so we ended up with two pairs and a single. I met the Big Fellah at the north end of Tottenham Court Road 09:30 and we worked from 09:45 to 10:45 leafleting our first block of streets. The we met Martin Poulter at a coffee shop and did a further two hours 11:30 - 13:30 with Martin doing his own separate small block. Finally after a pub lunch we did about another hour, hour and a half, though to 16:00 or so, ending up with a visit to the bOrg to give them a copy.

We delivered 1600+ of our 2400 "cult in your neighbourhood" leaflets door to door, plus several hundred photocopies of the news article on Bonnie Woods' court victory. All around the Org's neighbourhood. We will come back and do the remaining third either as street leafleting, or more distant door to door, fairly soon.

The area we are talking about is between Euston Road in the north, which has Euston Station (for the NorthWest) near its western end though to Kings Cross station (for the NorthEast) at its eastern end, down at its western end through Tottenham Court Road -- the bOrg is just above Goodge Street, which is halfway down -- through to Oxford Street in the south, which is a main expensive shopping street 1-200 metres north of the Thames. The high court, where the trial was held, is at the eastern end and slightly nearer the river.

Mostly we concentrated on "Fitzrovia" along Charlotte Street which parallels Tottenham Court Road to the west, from Fitzroy Square near the top and down past the Fitzroy Tavern which is a little below Goodge Street, down through to Oxford St. There is a very high proportion of 3 -- 6 flat housing, and all doors directly to the street without front gardens.

It's a very.... interesting.... neighbourhood. Around Fitzroy Square you find the more modest embassies of some smaller African and East European states. There is a building on Charlotte Street which used to house Channel4 television, but which is now their cable TV division only. There are several major advertising agencies including Saatchi and Saatchi nearby, also "Snowman Enterprises" which merchandises the Raymond Briggs cartoon ("we're walking in the air... dropping leaflets on the clams below"), and a small publishing house with an unusual name I remember sending stuff too. There's London's CYBERIA internet Cafe, of course, and the offices of a medium-sized ISP called EasyNet, and some dinky museums and specialist shops. Notably many computer companies, and we were sure to point out the URLS to them for "Lisa" and "clambake". Oh, and a Christian bookshop and a Muslim community centre; I can't wait until they found out what their neighbours get up to in the same of religion. The young woman at the bookshop said yes, she passed by there every day, but didn't know much about them yet. A hairdresser, and a resteraunteur, both popped out after me to ask for further copies from friends. A gallery owner said "ugh, not them"until I made clear "it is _against_".

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 I hope we get some good letters back2  BCM Box XENU, London, WC1N 3XX.
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Afterwards, we had a drink in the Fitzroy Tavern, is owned by a nice australian (?New Zealand) couple and is really prospering. Unlike the Org. We dropped by briefly to ask them how they liked the cult being done for UK#50,000 damages and give them some leaflets. The woman receptionist seemed very non-confront. There was a new (?) Sea Org slave-master, with a Spanish accent, drafted in. He said he'd fetch Mr Vollet from upstairs so we could have a chat, but then decided Jacques was busy / absent and we should leave instead. Hmm.

They have that statue of Fat Ron by the street door; the one where the sculptor said Ron looked like a "scrubbed pink pig" posing for it. I didn't quite chuck it under the chin, just put my finger in front of the nose and made a pushing-in-air gesture with a "honk honk" sound. But the nose-tip was shiny, maybe from other people pushing or rubbing at it over time.

I would encourage anyone in North America to have a go at this. There is a -- manageable -- cost to this UK#80/US$140 got us all the leaflets we need for London AND Brighton, 2500 A4 single-sided for each. We already had the POBox, which costs about the same for one year. The main consideration is labour: you need to field three pairs for a 4 hour afternoon, if less people then it will simply mean a second day and/or longer day(s).

The southern people did most of the planning and preparation anyway. You really need an AtoZ streetmap of your target, together with the electoral register and census informatioon at their city library. This will enable you to work out roughly where 2500 households are and divide it into strips by main street. Our usual method was simply "I'll take the left and keep going clockwise around any sidestreet, you the right, and we'll meet up; or for big sidestreets we would break off and do the above procedure in the side-street too.

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